Feature: Marty's Musical Meltdown

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• Music Reviews: Barren Earth, Earth, Hurtsmile, Made of Hate, Whispers of Fate, The Pretty Reckless

  A surprise, a disappointment and some decent music.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Feb 06, 2011

• Music Reviews: Pushking, Jag Panzer, Evergrey, Stratovarius, Crystal Viper

  Poland, Scandinavia, Russia and the U.S. provide this week's power metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jan 27, 2011

• Music Reviews: Ben Sommer, Cauldron, Assassin, Hour of 13, Sevendust, Junior Doctor

  A varied selection of heavy and not so heavy music for the week.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jan 18, 2011

• Music Reviews: The Ocean, Elvenking,Tankard, Testament, Weedeater

  Bong, beer and elven metal compete with some odd but enjoyable modern metal this week.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jan 09, 2011

• Music Reviews: Dragged into Sunlight, Helrunar, Twisted Sister, Nelson, WINO

  A country acoustic from WINO, some dark pagan metal, a touch of glam and talented twins.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jan 02, 2011

• Music Reviews: As They Sleep, Bison B.C., Battlelore, Falkenbach, Fejd

  Folk metal through some fantasy to something calling itself modern metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Dec 24, 2010

• DVD/Music Reviews: Zappa, Eric Johnson, Stratovarius, Ektomorph, Artas

  Slow blues, Jazz-fusion care of Zappa and some modern metal that ain't half bad.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Dec 15, 2010

• Music Reviews: Holy Grail, Iron Fire, Ion, Obsidian, and Unruly Child

  Intense folk hard rock to some good ole fashion pomp via old school metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Dec 08, 2010

• Music & DVD Reviews: Inxs, Velvet Revolver, Transatlantic, Monster Magnet, Katra, Virgin Steele

  Pure progressive glory, sleaze rock and some uber-clever power metal: sounds like a normal MMM then.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Nov 29, 2010

• Music reviews: Bee Gees, Twisted Sister, Dakrya, Killing Joke, Grave Digger

  From songwriting royalty through tartan power metal (via Germany) to goth metal fun.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Nov 21, 2010

• Music Reviews: Spin, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Downslave, Powerworld, Varg, Ross the Boss

  From Queen-tinged pop rock through pagan metal and back to some good ole' power.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Nov 10, 2010

• Music Reviews: Carl Palmer, Heaven & Hell, Creation's End, Circle II Circle, Fair Warning, and Althorn

  From the pomp to the prog through the power, all sorts of metal are catered for this week.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Nov 02, 2010

• Music reviews: Dio, Atlantean Codex, Astrosoniq, At Vance, Revolution Renaissance, Symphorce,

  From the goodness of Dio live through some clever and not-so-clever power-metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Oct 24, 2010

• Music Review: Black Country Communion, Unsun, Bangtower, Viking Skull, Fireball Ministry, Angra

  From the black country to Brazil via some clever jazz prog.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Oct 15, 2010

• Music (CD/DVD) Reviews: Dio, Rolling Stones, The Michael Schenker, Ransom, Logan, Touchstone

  Some Stones, folky prog as well as damn good heavy rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Oct 07, 2010

• Music Reviews (CD/DVD): Rush, Barclay James Harvest, Rory Gallagher, Ronnie Wood

  From Rush to Wood via some uber-Irish Blues rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Sep 28, 2010

• Music Reviews: Doobie Brothers, Sister Hazel, Apocalyptica, Empty Tremor, Kamelot, Spiritual Beggars

  Gloriously retro, a bit camp, some laid back cool and of course some uber-prog.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Sep 19, 2010

• Music Reviews: Del Rey, James LeBrie, City of Fire, Infernaeon, Antogonist, Wolfshare

  Avant garde black metal, through a couple of guys trying new things and more.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Sep 09, 2010

• Music Reviews: Christian Mistress, Heart, Iron Maiden, The New Czars, and Kickhunter

  German's doing Southern rock boogie, Iron Maiden doing heavy prog, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Sep 01, 2010

• Music DVD/CD Review: Black Label Society, Janes Addiction, Electric Light Orchestra, Salem, Neurosis

  From Neurosis to Electric Light Orchestra and back to Black Label Society... via Israel.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Aug 23, 2010